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Food hygiene in Babergh by area

In the last month 14 food places across Babergh were given a hygiene score, and 93% of them got the top mark of 5. Over three months, 1 place scored 2 or below, and 21 food places are waiting for their first inspection.

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14hygiene scoreslast 31 days
93%scored 513 places, last 31 days
1scored 0 to 2last 3 months
21waiting for a first inspectionusually new or under new owners

Darker means more hygiene scores published. Tap an area for its page.

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Most inspected this month: Sudbury (8), Brookwood (2) and Capel St Mary (1). The middle Babergh area had 0. Over three months, the highest share of 5s among areas with at least five scores was in Sudbury (77%).

Every area, ranked

1SudburyCO1081377%012
2BrookwoodIP222–02
3Capel St MaryIP914100%00
4East BergholtCO713100%00
5GlemsfordCO1012–01
6PinebrookIP812–01
7PinewoodIP812–01
8Monks EleighIP711–00
9HadleighIP704100%01
10HolbrookIP903100%00
11ChelmondistonIP902–00
12Long MelfordCO1002–00
13WashbrookIP802–00
14CattawadeCO1101–11
15CockfieldIP3001–00
16CopdockIP801–00
17LavenhamCO1001–00
18NaylandCO601–00
19SproughtonIP801–00
20Stratford St MaryCO701–00
21BoxfordCO1000–01
22BuresCO800–02
23Great WaldingfieldCO1000–01

“Last month” and “3 months” count the hygiene scores published within each area’s circle. “Scored 5” is the share of the last three months’ scores that were a 5; it needs at least three. “Waiting” is food places registered but not yet inspected. Areas overlap, so one place can count in more than one. Tap a column to sort.

Scored 0 to 2 in the last three months

  • Family pizza was rated 2 (improvement necessary) on 14 August 2026. Cattawade · Takeaways and sandwich shops

A score shows how things were on the day of the inspection. Businesses can appeal, and can ask for a new inspection once they have made improvements, so check the Food Standards Agency’s page for the latest.

Top marks this month

13 places scored 5 in the last 31 days.

New food places

21 food places across Babergh are registered with their council and waiting for a first hygiene inspection, the most near Sudbury (12), Brookwood (2), Bures (2), Hadleigh (1) and Pinebrook (1). They are usually new businesses or ones under new owners, and each area’s page lists them.

By kind of business

Restaurants and cafés1080%0
Schools and colleges8100%0
Shops771%0
Pubs, bars and clubs580%0
Care homes and nurseries4100%0
Other caterers4100%0
Takeaways and sandwich shops475%1
Mobile caterers2–0
Supermarkets1–0
Food makers and packers1–0
Hotels and B&Bs1–0

Babergh, last three months. The share scoring 5 needs at least three scores.

How food hygiene ratings work

Every place that serves, sells or makes food is inspected by its council’s food safety officers, and the Food Standards Agency publishes the score. Officers look at how food is handled and stored, the state of the building and its cleaning, and how the business manages food safety. The score runs from 0 to 5:

  • 5: very good
  • 4: good
  • 3: generally satisfactory
  • 2: improvement necessary
  • 1: major improvement necessary
  • 0: urgent improvement necessary

How often a place is inspected depends on the risk, so a busy kitchen is visited more often than a shop selling packaged food. New businesses wait for a first visit before they get a score.

Where the figures come from

Scores come from the Food Standards Agency’s food hygiene rating data, published under the Open Government Licence, for every council we cover. Figures for Babergh as a whole count the food places whose nearest area is in Babergh. Each area is a circle round its middle, the same as on its MeBabber page. A score appears here when the agency publishes it, which can be a few weeks after the inspection.

See our sources and their licences. Figures update every night.

Food hygiene in every area

Questions people ask

Which areas of Babergh had the most food hygiene inspections?

Over the last month, the most hygiene scores were published for Sudbury (8), Brookwood (2), Capel St Mary (1), East Bergholt (1) and Glemsford (1). The middle Babergh area had 0.

How many Babergh food places score 5 for hygiene?

Of the 47 food places in Babergh given a score in the last three months, 40 (85%) got the top mark of 5, meaning hygiene is very good.

Have any Babergh food places scored 0, 1 or 2 recently?

Yes. In the last three months 1 place in Babergh was given 2 or below: 0 scored 0, 0 scored 1 and 1 scored 2. Each is listed on this page with its date. A low score shows how things were on the day of the inspection.

What do food hygiene ratings mean?

Food Standards Agency scores run from 0 to 5: 5 is very good, 4 good, 3 generally satisfactory, 2 improvement necessary, 1 major improvement necessary and 0 urgent improvement necessary. Council officers give the score after an inspection of hygiene, the building and how food safety is managed.